Rendering smaller than full screen...

GerryLeacock wrote on 11/17/2003, 2:56 PM
How to explain this??....

I have a video of a burning fireplace that lasts for 1 hour. Having it playing on the TV in the living room is nice atmosphere for when we are entertaining. Makes a nice cozy fake fireplace on the 27" screen.

I copied it over to DVD (capture with Video Factory) so we could play it on the new 47" widescreen TV in that now occupies the living room. However, when it is shown full screen on a 47" 16:9 TV, it feels more like we are sitting somewhere in the middle of Dante's Inferno. I swear you could almost get a tan if you sit too close.

Is there any way to render it to a smaller screensize, so that shown on the 47 incher, it only plays as a small box in the middle of the big screen?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

Former user wrote on 11/17/2003, 3:25 PM
You could use the Pan/Crop feature and make it smaller on the screen. You will still get the full screen but the border will be black.

Dave T2
GerryLeacock wrote on 11/17/2003, 4:01 PM
OK, I'm doing something wrong here. I click on the [FX] box, click on the [Pan/Crop] tab, but what then? If I make the "box with the F" smaller in the middle of the screen, all it does is show me the "center of the fire" when I play it, not the "entire fireplace in a smaller box". I think I'm one click away from having it right.
Steve Grisetti wrote on 11/17/2003, 4:18 PM

Actually, you've got it backwards. You stretch the frame larger than the image.

See, the frame represents the edges of your TV screen so, when you make it larger than your picture, the net effect is that the image on your screen will only take up a portion of your screen (as the image does in the frame you stretched).

Does that make sense?
GerryLeacock wrote on 11/17/2003, 5:32 PM
Yes, and I just tested it on a short clip. That's exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you very much!